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n. the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay

Etymologies

Named after William Baffin, English explorer (Wiktionary)

Examples

We arrived later at Pond Inlet, a settlement on Baffin Island with a view of the 6,000-feet-high mountains of Bylot Island and a seeming indifference to tourists—save for one local by the hotel entrance, selling bear claws for 20 Canadian dollars roughly US$20.

And my buddy was driving the airplane to Yellow Knife in the back of a U-haul trailer to get it , use a shoe-horn, shove it on to a DC-4 airplane and fly this ultra-light to Baffin Island where we were then going to fly to the sea ice.